Having Form problems.

l95theses

I've recently got into the new world of php and html programming in the "form" sections. I've put together a code that will submit and create a page with a table that includes specified information from textboxes and such, I'm having a problem creating a reset button because the first form in my page allways seems to conflict in the new form that I make, or new button that I make to send different information to the same page. The main problem may because I want to access all the control from just one page. I have 4 pages; the main.php, the action3.php, the user3.php, and the style.css. Mainly all the programming of submission is in the action3.php which looks like this:

<form method=post>
<center>Name: <input type="text" name="user"><br>
<center><textarea name=comment>Post a comment to the site.</textarea><br>
<center><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Post Comment" action=
<?php
$username = $POST['user'];
$comment = $POST['comment'];
$def = "<td>$username $comment</td><tr>\n";
$daf = $username;
if ( $daf == "reset form" ) {
$daf = "<html><body bgcolor=white><center><font size=4><b>This is my first dynamic posting board.</b><br><br><table border=1 rows=1><tr><td><b>Username |<b> Comment</td></tr>";
$aol = "w";
} else {
$daf = $def;
$aol = "a";
}
$f = fopen("user3.php", "$aol");
fwrite($f, $daf);
fclose($f);
?>></form>


Than the main page looks like this




<head><title>Entity Servers</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/></head>

<center>
<table border=0><tr><td>
<?php include("user3.php") ?></td></tr><td>
<?php include("action3.php") ?>
<br>
<a href=main.php>Refresh view of all Comments.</a><br>
<center>Entity Servers All rights Reserved.
</td></tr></table><br><br>
</html>


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You can tell what the user3.php page consists of because it's in the action3.php
in the entity of the "reset" script that I tried to make, but only succeeded by making it like a password, or administer right. I want the reset to be a button so that anyone can reset the form. You might want to know why, but that reason is just for experimental purposes. I would greatly appreaciate any help I can get. 
THANK YOU!

Houdini

Not really sure what you really want to do but this will make the form work with a reset button. I also moved the default text out of the textarea so that it can actually be reset. Now after testing your script I have a file user3.php with a bunch of nutty comments. I suppose that is what it is supposed to do.

<form method="post" name="myform" action="">
<center>Name: <input type="text" name="user"><br>
<center>Post a comment to the site.<br /><textarea name=comment></textarea><br>
<center><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Post Comment" action=
<?php
$username = $_POST['user'];
$comment = $_POST['comment'];
$def = "<td>$username $comment</td><tr>\n";
$daf = $username;
if ( $daf == "reset form" ) {
$daf = "<html><body bgcolor=white><center><font size=4><b>This is my first dynamic posting board.</b><br><br><table border=1 rows=1><tr><td><b>Username |<b> Comment</td></tr>";
$aol = "w";
} else {
$daf = $def;
$aol = "a";
}
$f = fopen("user3.php", "$aol");
fwrite($f, $daf);
fclose($f);
?><input type ="reset"></form>

l95theses

actually I don't want to reset the textbox, i want to reset the whole user3.php with the code that is in the $daf variable, only when a reset button is pushed, but in my code I can only get it to work when I type "reset form" into the name: textbox. Another problem I'm having is, that every time I submit something, I have to refresh the page before it shows up. and sometimes it will post an extra line that is empty if I don't put anything. lol